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by implements 5d ago
“Gell-Mann Amnesia“ - usually applied to media when experts scoff at stories they know to be sometimes woefully inaccurate but still accept all the other pages as gospel. Coined by Michael Crichton (the famous author).
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by implements 26d ago
Cheers! - hadn’t heard that. Here’s the report: https://aastatus.net/42881
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by implements 26d ago
If the phone is behind a NAT firewall / router it may need external help to receive calls: https://support.aa.net.uk/VoIP_NAT
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by implements 26d ago
“Has no personal mandate from the entire electorate” - I suspect they mean. But that’s not necessary or expected under the British system, being an MP and Party Leader is enough. If Burnham radically departed from Labour’s manifesto you cou
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by implements 2mo ago
If you want something Walkman-like and aren’t short of a few bob, there’s always: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7 - scratches a similar itch, but is also a: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by implements 4mo ago
Cheetahs (genus “Acinonyx”) are the largest ‘small cat’, apparently [1] - separate from the genus “Panthera“ containing the ones that will attack humans (lions, tigers, leopards). [1] There’s a well known viral video of a wildlife park keep
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by implements 4mo ago
Tip: The iPhone Passwords App has basic TOTP functionality (manually create a password entry and click “Set Up Code”). I have a few dummy passwords which are effectively just labels for some login codes - it’s one less App to install.
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by implements 4mo ago
Excuse the whataboutism, but how many Americans are arrested for “disorderly conduct” each day? (Which from my YouTube police footage watching appears to be “being an annoying arsehole in public” [1] ie a broadly similar moral misbehaviour)
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by implements 4mo ago
Part of the transaction is the performance of a service role - they’re thanking you for allowing them to help you. But also it might be a habit if they’re used to serving a queue of customers (“Thank you for waiting”) or just a polite verba
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by implements 5mo ago
> A lot of people say that going through a trial, even as a victim, is a punishment … “You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride” (rap being the charge and ride being the whole process from arrest to acquittal: time, money and em
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by implements 5mo ago
I wondered whether K’s original crime was being “the sort of person who would express excessive pride before the law” - a Minority Report style “Contempt of Court”. Or was it originally just mistaken identity?
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by implements 5mo ago
I was taught “Edible (fit to be eaten as food) vs Eatable (capable of being chewed up and swallowed)” but modern usage seems to treat them as synonyms (the former just being more pleasant to eat than the latter).
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by implements 5mo ago
Remember that they’re not flying towards the Moon but to a point in space where they and the Moon will be closest together in a day or two, hence the Moon is now ‘off to their side’ and they can see a segment of it that is hidden to Earth o
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by implements 6mo ago
Ahh! Yeah, my teachers were equally unimpressed - but none of them gave the argument you mentioned, which could at least be understood (like elbows on tables).
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by implements 6mo ago
I’m right handed, but eat with the fork in my right hand and knife in the left. Is the issue that people have difficulty cutting with their left hand? Because if you can the process of eating is pretty efficient: hold with fork, cut with kn
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by implements 6mo ago
Yeah, I’ve got a UK Foundation licence but have never actually made a call - it was more of a “have transceiver might as well be legal to use it” thing. (Also, HF antennas - just didn’t anticipate how difficult they were to set up properly)
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by implements 11mo ago
Speaking of Linux, OpenBSD’s hypervisor (vmm) supports it so I managed to get docker and containers running on my server via Alpine Linux. Opens the door on all the latest ‘modern server stuff’ running happily on an OBSD box.
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by implements 11mo ago
Yep. There’s a safe engineer on YouTube who was explaining the history of dial combination locks commonly used for government filing cabinets, etc. He pointed out that you can drill them in minutes but you’d need several hours to make good
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by implements 11mo ago
Cloudflare aren’t a bad registrar (imo) - they sell and renew domains at wholesale cost, forward emails, can do website landing pages with a Worker (etc). Understand the product in depth and would seem like a reasonably safe bet. (Not shill
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by implements 1y ago
You can roll your own email if you can get your head around setting up an OpenBSD box and configuring OpenSMTPD and the correct domain DNS records - but the issue will be email deliverability. Gmail etc are going to treat as spam most email
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by implements 1y ago
Don’t want to edit Norm, but a (perhaps British sensibility) alternative is: “The more I hear about this Hitler fellow, the less I like him”
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by implements 1y ago
> My pet idea is to make some use of longwave! […] At 60 kHz the wavelength is 5 kilometres long … Dim memory from my Ham Radio days that you’d need an antenna length of 1/4 the wavelength, which wouldn’t be very convenient for port
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by implements 1y ago
> The UK had an aircraft called Harrier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_jump_jet … Also, the French: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar which was designed to be useable from
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by implements 1y ago
Any device with a Government service (eg NHS) or a Banking app knows who and old the primary user is, so seems the obvious technological solution is some kind of securely anonymous attestation that websites can request from the OS.
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by implements 1y ago
> Very interesting. Relates to conversations I've had recently regarding trans people in sports. Turns out that conversation isn't simple, because gender is way more complex than the binary M/F options society has tried to
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by implements 1y ago
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by implements 1y ago
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by implements 1y ago
The Orwellian part may be “men” and “women” changing from sex categories to gender ones, more specifically the ‘Newspeak‘ conflation of sex and gender into a single concept such that for some people it has become difficult to discuss them s
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by implements 1y ago
Argon is an interesting one. A comparison between chemically synthesised nitrogen and ‘pure’ nitrogen extracted from the air (with the oxygen, carbon dioxide and water removed) revealed a discrepancy: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by implements 1y ago
Generally, it’s news because it helps to confirm that gender or sex-based discrimination hasn’t interfered with the career success of a female individual. Specifically, it’s another milestone for the British intelligence and security commun

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